minkins' obituary which depicts bryan as a bumbling backcountry kind of misguided figure in 1924 and 1925 in that period. so his legacy is tarnished, really, at the end of his career by this. michael's book, i think, recovers bryan's legacy beautifully. all of the reforms that he championed, women's rights, in particular, the right to vote, the suffrage, which was an active issue in the 1870s, 1880s, 1890s. and bryan was at the forefront of it. other issues as well that you just mentioned were ones that he was deeply involved in from the beginning. >> i think -- i emphasize this in the book, i think one of the legacies of bryan which is important which is in many ways, you don't get bryan, you don't get roosevelt. he was the main figure into remaking the democratic party in a party we think about today for those that don't like the big-government party. for those that don't like it, the more liberal party. he does in 1908 forge for the first time a strong relationship between organized labor, then the american federation of labor and the democratic party, a relationship that for the